Nobody hands you a manual for chronic illness. Instead, you spend years becoming accidentally creative. You learn that the thing that saves your energy isn't always the expensive gadget. Sometimes it's a $20 nappy bag that somehow became a portable pharmacy.

Survival Shortcuts is my collection of practical hacks, systems, products, routines, and "why didn't anyone tell me this sooner?" moments that make life with chronic illness a little easier.

Some are things I've discovered myself. Some were shared by other patients who have spent years solving problems doctors never warned them about. None of them are medical advice. They're simply tools that help me spend less energy surviving and more energy living.

Nappy bag hack for medications

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• nappy bag 1

• nappy bag 2

One day I looked at the mountain of medication bottles taking over my house and decided there had to be a better system.

Enter: a $20 nappy bag.

The built-in compartments are perfect for separating my morning, evening, and twice-daily medications, making it easy to refill my weekly pill organiser without hunting through dozens of bottles. As a bonus, anything running low gets added straight to my shopping list before I forget.

It's not fancy, medical-grade, or particularly glamorous. But it saves me time, energy, and frustration every single week. Sometimes the best accessibility tools are the ones nobody intended to be accessibility tools at all.

Here are two I found on amazon, nappy bag 1 and nappy bag 2.